TIARA. 35 



Var. semigranosa (v. d. Busch), Nevill, Hand Lisb, p. 277. 

 Mclania semigranosa, v. d. Buscli, Philippi, Abbild. i, 1884, Java. 



" Differs conspicuously by the shorter spire, and the more 

 tumidly ventricose last whorl, which is also more produced, etc. 

 Long. 31. 



" Diam. 15 mm ; apex eroded. 



" Hob. Near Moulmeiu. 



" Long. 18, diarn. 8J mm. May be considered as a connecting 

 link with M. batana, Grid. Pegu. 



" A fine form with turriculately planulate whorls. Long. 30, 

 diam. 13 mm. Meetan, Tenassernn Province; Teria Ghat?" 

 (Nevill} 



Subvar. pergranosa, Nevill, torn. cit. 



" Long. 15J, diam. 7| mm. G-ranulose sculpture very pro- 

 minent." (Nevill.) 

 Hab. Port Canning. 



Yar. flavida (Dunker), Nevill, torn. cit. p. 277; Philippi, Abbild. 

 i, 1884, p. 164, pi. 3, fig. 15. 



Original description: Testa parva, oblongo-pyrainidata, solidula, 

 flavida, diaphana, anfractibus senis planulatis, transversim sulcatis; 

 apertura subelliptica. 



Alt. 12, diam. 4'5 mm. 



A pale yellowish variety originally described as a species with- 

 out locality, it is a common Javan form, Indian specimens of which, 

 according to Nevill, have the spire more subcylindrically produced 

 than those from Java. 



Hal). Teria Ghat (Stoliczlca). 



Subgenus PLOTIA. 

 Plotia, H. & A. Adams, Gen. Rec. Moll. 1854, p. 295. 



TYPE, Melania spimdosa, Lamarck = J/. scabra, Miiller ; S. Asia. 



Range. S. Asia, Malaysia and Tropical Islands of Indian and 

 Pacific Oceans. 



Original description : Shell ovate, fusiform ; whorls spinose, 

 transversely sulcate ; aperture elongate, simple in front. 



60. Tiara (Plotia) scabra (Miiller). 



Tiara (Plotia) scabra (Miiller) (as Bucdnum scabra), Hist. Verm. 



ii, p. 136: Chemn. Conch.-Cab. figs. 1259, 1260, badly as (Helix 



scabra) ; Brug. Enc. Meth., Vers, i, p. 330 (as Bulimus scabra) j. 



Desh. ed. Lam. Anim. s. Vert, ix, p. 443. 

 Helix aspera, Gmel. Syst. Nat. fig. 3656; Dillw. Cat. ii, p. 950; 



Wood, Ind. Testae, pi. 34, fig. 141 . 

 Melania eleyans, Reeve, Con. Icon., Mel. sp. 178 ; H. & T., C. I. 



pi. 73, figs. 1-4 ; Brot, in Conch.-Cab. 1877, pp. 266-269, pi. 27, 



figs. 14, 14a-^ ; 15, 15 a. 



" Sbell ovate, sometimes a little elongated, rather thin, brownish- 



